And to think that years ago I passed up the opportunity to become an apprentice baker and cake decorator... I thought it would be boring... I never knew that they were high all day at work. What ever they are on? I WANT SOME!!!!

What I find horrifing is with the "Lamb with Sponges,"... there is ANOTHER ONE off to the side!!! (Is that how you spell sponge? It just doesn't look right and I am too mesmerized by the Easter Bunny Butts that have adorned my reception desk here at work to spell check.)

In addition to all the wreckiness Jen pointed out, the second lamb's eyes are made of CLOVES!!!! Technically, they're edible, but REALLY - CLOVES? The wreckerator doesn't have any other item (say, icing perhaps?) that would create the same effect? Really?!!? Boggles the mind...

Every year on the buffet at my grandmother's house there was a coconut covered lamb cake. I usually didn't spend much time admiring it but even though my grandmother and aunts made this ONCE a year, I know that EVERY year it actually looked like a lamb. I wonder what they were doing wrong...

The last one has a hoity-toity expression on its face last seen adorning the dial of Hyacinth Bucket.As for the Elm St. lamb - covered in snails, no eyes, but a cute little sprig of blossoms in its wooly/snaily fringe.I'm now imagining a number of little kiddies choking on the Sponge lamb's flotsam, horrified adults rushing from one to another, administering Heimlich maneuvers left, right and centre....111111

The other day I wrote in saying that those rabbit cakes were the worst I've ever seen, even after months of reading this site. I stand corrected today. These cakes were designed by people who have obviously never seen a lamb--as in, the actual animal. That's all I can figure.

When I was an exchange student in Belgium, I went to the confirmation party of one of the cousins. I was surprised and impressed when the girl cut off the head of her beautiful, professional, lamb cake and blood spurted forth. It was truly a sight to behold. I always tell my children about it because I so enjoy their screams of horror.

My two-year-old took a look at the last one and said "Sheep!" I replied, "yeah, kind of . . . " It was the only thing I could think to say. I love the scared chocolate lamb the best. It has the most appropriate expression for a cake that is about to be eaten.

That last cake is so wrong! Who decided on colored sponges?? "I know what's missing from this pastoral scene - colored sponges!" And why has no one else noticed how the face on that thing looks half human?! Is it just me?! hahaha! Doesn't it look like some sort of messed up, lonely-farmer-offspring, lambman cake?!?

That stuff you say was clumpy yellow sponge? No no no no no. It is something out of the bottom of a bucket of X-TRA CRISPY lamb tenders! It's a warning! See what can happen to the naughty ones? They end up DEEP FRIED and served on a platter wedged into the side of their favored sibling who has been honorarily stabbed with a "holy" picture, and bedecked in loose candy flotsam, ribbons, rings and things and buttons and bows. Or something.

I changed my mind again... The "Elm Street" lamb is way cooler and more menacing that that silly old Satanic Lamb. I want the "Elm Street" lamb as my Groom's cake. Hey, I'm a girl. It's my perogative to change my mind, dammit. So there.

Ahh. The fabulous lamb cake. I work for a large regional grocery store. Each year, we are told that we will be selling lamb cakes. Fortunately...they are never shipped to our store. However, I and one of my cake decorators offered to make some free style ones with left over red velvet cake. My offer wasn't accepted.

I actually MADE the Elm Street one while working for BHB!! While eyes would have been nice, that was how I was instructed to make it! I actually think they were cute. Then again, that may be because I was making them all day every day for a week and it was just pounded into my brain. ;)

ps-They're a pain in the butt, because they fall over if you even LOOK at them wrong.

That Elm Street lamb has no face! I couldn't see one at any rate and was afraid to look closer as the white poo frosting made me cringe. As for that last one my goodness if I saw that in a window display I would walk quickly away laughing. Ugh lamb cakes are a scary thing.

So, if we just change the mouth on the first cake to a big "O." and slap a little bright yellow icing on top of the head...(Oh, no!) MR. BILL!Yeah? Yeah?~~~~~I am neverENDingly aghast that these places have the balls to put these abominations on ACTUAL display--let alone charge ACTUAL money (!!!) for them. I can only imagine the mass lambicide on the Monday after Easter.Unless they just scrape all the crap off of them and recycle them for Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day (4/26)

Those are pathetic! The only time I tried to do a stand-up lamb for an Easter brunch, the icing made the head so heavy it fell off, making it look like he had been guillotined! Not even massive skewers could reattach the head to the body!

Mr. Pipe Cleaner Nose also has grass growing out of his legs. Exactly how long has he been laying there!? Lazy git!

I find the Tortellini Sheep far more amusing than frightening though. I have a strange desire to shove him in a boiling pot of water and mix up some sauce...

The last sheep though... that one makes me feel like the sheep just above him. O.O Dude's face looks like a pig face that was squashed thinner and tossed on a pile of fluff with some carved up pig legs for good measure. But that may just be because I'm from North Carolina... We see hogs everywhere. It's a local disability (read: traumatization).

How can you have all these jelly beans everywhere, yet need to put a pipe cleaner on for a nose?? I like how the flotsam includes a prayer book-looking pick so you know what the heck’s supposed to be going on here. And are those Elm Street meringues? Apparently, nothing really IS sacred anymore.

There is an early episode of MASH in which a Greek unit is about to roast a lamb for a celebration. Radar can't stand the thought of it, so the surgeons hide the real (live) one and swap it out for one made of spam. At least a spam lamb had an excuse for looking the way it did. Blech.

I needed a laugh today and that scared brown lamb did the trick. I am bothered by the first lamb with the pipe cleaner nose, but the haunting is left to the faceless black. Where's it's face.. if it's not ON the lamb, where is it? Who has it? Is it waiting?

Polish butter sculpture in the shape of a lamb, Baranek Wielkanocny. A priest should bless it, then you eat it tail first. The cake version sounds like a slightly healthier take on tradition. Slightly.

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